Muad Mohamed Zaki

Muad Mohamad Zaki (born 7 April 1982) is a Maldivian politician, democracy advocate, business consultant and motivational speaker.

Career Muad was one of the people who were behind the Sandhaanu political magazine that criticized Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's government.

Muad was one of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party members on the streets of Maldives among the hundreds that were brutally cracked down upon by the National Security Service (NSS) during an anti-government demonstration in the Maldives. and suffered multiple injuries and blood loss from the incident. Later, the European Union sent in a fact finding mission to assess the nature of the protests.

Muad began his political activism through his studies on socialism while in the United Kingdom.

Personal life Muad is the son of Mohamad Zaki, and is part of the "Nazaki Family", where his father and grandfather held influential societal statuses in the Maldives.

In the 1990s, Zaki migrated to Malaysia with his family during his father's self exile.